ABSTRACT

The Viennese Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) headquarters reported the arrest of three young boys on 25 November 1941. They were said to have ‘spitefully’ destroyed a notice board of the Hitlerjugend (HJ) and to ‘belong to the Schlurf movement’.1 The bone of contention was a poster presented on the board. It showed caricatures of boys and girls smoking, dancing, and hanging around on the streets at night. They argue and cause trouble. They wear strange clothes, have peculiar hairstyles and strike poses. Above these scenes a big-lettered heading reads: ‘We reject these’.2 ‘These’ were obviously supposed to ‘belong to the Schlurf movement’ as well.